I'm making a little headway with getting our curators to use TMS for
their projects rather than making up their own databases and
spreadsheets.  A couple have asked me if they can use TMS as a planning
tool for a deaccession project.  They want something more than just an
object package that they can put object records into as a way of
grouping and considering things that they might want to recommend for
deaccessioning.  

 

Naturally, I want to encourage them to use TMS more and more, so I was
thinking maybe of encouraging them to make an exhibition record, maybe
using the venue features to include or exclude things from active
consideration without actually removing it from the table too far.

 

What do you all think?  Is there a better suggestion?  It seems like
this could get muddy, but it's about the best I could imagine.

 

Thanks for any suggestions and advice!

 

David

 

David Aylsworth 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 
Registrar for Collections 
telephone:  713-639-7824 
fax:  713-639-7780